2003 IIHF World Championship

2003 IIHF World Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Dates	26 April – 11 May
Opened by	Tarja Halonen
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Canada(22nd title)
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	Slovakia
Fourth place	Czech Republic
Tournament statistics
Games played	56
Goals scored	349 (6.23 per game)
Attendance	449,193 (8,021 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Žigmund Pálffy(15 points)
	←2002 2004→

The2003 IIHF World Championshipwas held between 26 April and 11 May 2003 inHelsinki,TampereandTurku,Finland.

It was the 67th annual event, and was run by theInternational Ice Hockey Federation(IIHF).

Canada won the gold medal after defeating Sweden 3–2 in a tightly fought final. Over 14 minutes into the overtime, Canadian forward Anson Carter beat Swedish goaltender Mikael Tellqvist with a wraparound goal. The goal was contested for several minutes before replays confirmed that Tellqvist had stopped the puck behind the goal line. It was Canada's first World Championship win in five years.

Sweden surrendered five consecutive goals against Finland in their quarterfinal to trail 5–1 seven minutes into the second period, at which point Swedish goaltenderTommy Salowas swapped forMikael Tellqvist.This proved to be the Swedish team's necessary wake-up call as the Swedes went on to score five unanswered goals before the end of regulation and ultimately win the game 6–5.

To celebrate the games, the Finnish government issued a high value commemorative coin: the2003 Ice Hockey World Championships commemorative coin,with three ice hockey sticks and a puck engraved on thereverse.

Qualification Tournament

The Far Eastern Qualification was played as a single game during the2003 Asian Winter Gameson February 4, 2003, inHachinohe,Japan. South Korea had opted to not play as they believed it more beneficial to focus on training and developing for their Division II tournament.^[1]During the games Japan also beat the Koreans eleven to two in the semi-finals.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	1	1	0	0	15	0	+15	2
China	1	0	0	1	0	15	−15	0

Source:IIHF

All times local

February 4, 2003
19:00

Japan

15–0

China

Venues

	Finland–Helsinki	Finland–Turku	Finland–Tampere
Helsinki Turku Tampere	Hartwall Areena Capacity: 13,349	Elysée Arena Capacity: 11,820	Tampere Ice Hall Capacity: 7,800

Final tournament

First round

In the first round, the top three teams from each group progressed to the second round, whilst the last-placed team progressed to the consolation round.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovakia	3	3	0	22	5	+17	6
Germany	3	2	1	9	8	+1	4
Ukraine	3	1	2	9	13	−4	2
Japan	3	0	3	6	20	−14	0

Source:IIHF

All times local

27 April 2003
16:00

5–4

27 April 2003
20:00

3–9

28 April 2003
16:00

10–1

29 April 2003
16:00

3–1

30 April 2003
16:00

3–1

30 April 2003
20:00

1–5

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Russia	3	3	0	14	5	+9	6
Switzerland	3	2	1	9	7	+2	4
Denmark	3	1	2	8	14	−6	2
United States	3	0	3	4	9	−5	0

Source:IIHF

26 April 2003
15:00

2–5

26 April 2003
19:00

2–5

27 April 2003
15:00

0–1

27 April 2003
19:00

6–1

29 April 2003
15:00

2–6

29 April 2003
19:00

3–2

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	3	3	0	12	2	+10	6
Sweden	3	2	1	6	5	+1	4
Latvia	3	1	2	6	9	−3	2
Belarus	3	0	3	1	9	−8	0

Source:IIHF

26 April 2003
16:00

3–0

26 April 2003
20:00

1–3

27 April 2003
16:00

6–1

27 April 2003
20:00

2–1

29 April 2003
16:00

0–4

29 April 2003
20:00

1–3

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Czech Republic	3	3	0	15	4	+11	6
Finland	3	2	1	18	3	+15	4
Austria	3	1	2	8	15	−7	2
Slovenia	3	0	3	4	23	−19	0

Source:IIHF

26 April 2003
16:00

Czech Republic

5–2

Slovenia

Hartwall Areena,Helsinki

26 April 2003
20:00

Austria

1–5

Finland

Hartwall Areena,Helsinki

28 April 2003
19:00

Finland

12–0

Slovenia

Tampere Ice Hall,Tampere

28 April 2003
20:00

Czech Republic

8–1

Austria

Hartwall Areena,Helsinki

29 April 2003
20:00

Slovenia

2–6

Austria

Hartwall Areena,Helsinki

30 April 2003
16:00

Finland

1–2

Czech Republic

Elysée Areena,Turku

Second round

In the second round, the top four teams from each group progressed to the final round, whilst the bottom two teams were eliminated.

Group E

Tables and scores below include meetings between teams during the first round.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovakia	5	4	1	0	27	9	+18	9
Czech Republic	5	4	1	0	22	7	+15	9
Finland	5	2	1	2	18	10	+8	5
Germany	5	2	1	2	11	11	0	5
Austria	5	1	0	4	9	27	−18	2
Ukraine	5	0	0	5	8	31	−23	0

Source:IIHF

26 April 2003
20:00

1–5

27 April 2003
20:00

3–9

28 April 2003
20:00

8–1

29 April 2003
16:00

3–1

30 April 2003
16:00

3–1

30 April 2003
16:00

1–2

2 May 2003
16:00

5–1

2 May 2003
20:00

5–2

3 May 2003
16:00

5–1

3 May 2003
20:00

9–0

4 May 2003
16:00

7–1

4 May 2003
20:00

4–0

5 May 2003
20:00

3–3

6 May 2003
16:00

2–5

6 May 2003
20:00

2–2

Group F

Tables and scores below include meetings between teams during the first round.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	5	4	1	0	18	6	+12	9
Sweden	5	4	0	1	20	9	+11	8
Russia	5	2	0	3	16	14	+2	4
Switzerland	5	2	0	3	14	16	−2	4
Latvia	5	2	0	3	10	16	−6	4
Denmark	5	0	1	4	8	25	−17	1

Source:IIHF

26 April 2003
19:00

2–5

26 April 2003
20:00

1–3

27 April 2003
16:00

6–1

27 April 2003
19:00

6–1

29 April 2003
15:00

2–6

29 April 2003
20:00

1–3

2 May 2003
16:00

2–2

2 May 2003
20:05

2–4

3 May 2003
16:00

4–2

3 May 2003
20:05

7–1

4 May 2003
16:00

2–1

4 May 2003
20:00

2–0

5 May 2003
20:00

2–5

6 May 2003
16:00

2–4

6 May 2003
20:00

2–5

Consolation round 13–16 place

Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	3	0	0	19	5	+14	6
Belarus	3	2	0	1	9	8	+1	4
Slovenia	3	0	1	2	8	14	−6	1
Japan	3	0	1	2	5	14	−9	1

Source:IIHF

As the Far Eastern qualifier, Japan avoided relegation. Therefore, Belarus and Slovenia were relegated to Division I for the2004 Championships.

2 May 2003
15:00

7–2

2 May 2003
19:00

3–1

3 May 2003
15:00

3–3

3 May 2003
19:00

4–2

5 May 2003
15:00

3–4

5 May 2003
19:00

1–8

Final round

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

7 May

Canada	3
		9 May
Germany	2
		Canada	8
7 May
		Czech Republic	4
Czech Republic	3
				11 May
Russia	0
				Canada	3
7 May
				Sweden	2
Slovakia	3
		9 May
Switzerland	1
		Slovakia	1
7 May
		Sweden	4	Third place
Sweden	6
				10 May
Finland	5
				Czech Republic	2

				Slovakia	4

Quarterfinals

7 May

3–2 (OT)

7 May

3–1

7 May

3–0

7 May

6–5

Mats Sundin– 04:45	1-0
	1-1	07:31 –Teemu Selänne
	1-2	09:13 –Teemu Selänne
	1-3	18:35 –Tomi Kallio
	1-4	25:26 –Kimmo Rintanen
	1-5	26:44 –Teemu Selänne
Jörgen Jönsson– 28:04	2-5
Peter Forsberg– 29:27	3-5
Jonas Höglund– 37:20	4-5
Peter Forsberg– 48:22	5-5
Per-Johan Axelsson– 55:06	6-5

Semifinals

9 May

8–4

9 May

1–4

Match for third place

10 May

Czech Republic

2–4

Slovakia

Final

11 May

Canada

3–2 (OT)
(1-2, 0-0, 1-0, 1-0)

Sweden

Helsinki
Attendance:13,387

Roberto Luongo

Goalies

Mikael Tellqvist

Referee:

Vladimir Šindler
Linesmen:

Petr Blümel

Antti Hämäläinen

	0-1	10:18 −Matias Tjärnqvist
	0-2	18:39 −Per-Johan Axelsson
Shawn Horcoff− 19:17	1-2
Shane Doan− 49:03	2-2
Anson Carter− 73:49	3-2

Ranking and statistics

2003 IIHF World Championship winners
Canada 22nd title

Tournament awards

Best players selected by the directorate:
- BestGoaltender:Sean Burke
- BestDefenceman:Jay Bouwmeester
- BestForward:Mats Sundin
- Most Valuable Player:Mats Sundin
Media All-Star Team:
- Goaltender:Sean Burke
- Defence:Jay Bouwmeester,Ľubomír Višňovský
- Forwards:Peter Forsberg,Dany Heatley,Mats Sundin

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according toIIHF:

	Canada
	Sweden
	Slovakia
4	Czech Republic
5	Finland
6	Germany
7	Russia
8	Switzerland
9	Latvia
10	Austria
11	Denmark
12	Ukraine
13	United States
14	Belarus
15	Slovenia
16	Japan

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals, then (fewer) games played.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Žigmund Pálffy	9	7	8	15	+9	18	F
Jozef Stümpel	9	4	11	15	+7	0	F
Ľubomír Višňovský	9	4	8	12	+11	2	D
Teemu Selänne	7	8	3	11	+3	2	F
Saku Koivu	7	1	10	11	+3	4	F
Dany Heatley	9	7	3	10	+9	10	F
Mats Sundin	7	6	4	10	+8	10	F
Miroslav Šatan	9	6	4	10	+2	2	F
Martin Straka	9	6	4	10	+5	4	F
Kimmo Rintanen	7	5	4	9	+3	0	F

Source:IIHF

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Oliver Jonas	180:00	100	4	1.33	96.00	0
Sean Burke	328:47	156	7	1.28	95.51	1
Mikael Tellqvist	393:16	150	9	1.37	94.00	0
Ján Lašák	359:20	168	11	1.84	93.45	0
Marco Bührer	297:25	137	9	1.82	93.43	1

Source:IIHF

References

^South Korea withdraws

External links

Official website

[1] South Korea withdraws

[1]

2003 IIHF World Championship

Contents

Qualification Tournament

Venues

Final tournament

First round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

Group E

Group F

Consolation round 13–16 place

Group G

Final round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Match for third place

Final

Ranking and statistics

Tournament awards

Final standings

Scoring leaders

Leading goaltenders

See also

References

External links